Wormy Chestnut Timber Flooring

The shot worm holes are the defining characteristic of wormy chestnut millions of board feet of standing deadwood chestnut were harvested for industrial residential furniture and construction purposes.

Wormy chestnut timber flooring.

Tasmanian oak is a commonly used for timber flooring. Australian wormy chestnut timber. It is a very durable blend designed for decades of use. Feature standard better sold as.

Once readily available this lumber has been in shorter supply recently so please call for current inventory. With a wormy chestnut floor no two boards will be the same. The timber is extraordinarily straight grained harvested from australia s tallest hardwood species the texture is uniform generally straight open and even but sometimes coarse grained or fiddle backed. These trees stunt their own growth to cope with drought occasional flooding wildfires and winds.

Ridgewood has been importing wholesaling and distributing timber panel and forestry products to the australian market for over 30 years. Timber species wr timbers stock over 45 australian and international timber species to assure you will find the right wood for your needs. Australian chestnut brings together three distinct eucalyptus species messmate southern beech and silvertop black ash native to the south east of australia. Australian wormy chestnut eucalyptus obliqua eucalyptus sieberi eucalyptus fastigata.

Australian wormy chestnut timber for sale. Chestnut wormy flooring. As hardwood timber flooring it differs from most other timber species. Australian wormy chestnut sometimes known as firestreak does not actually come from a chestnut tree at all.

The timber is named for its characteristics rather than its species and comes from a blend of eucalyptus obliqua eucalyptus sieberi and eucalyptus fastigata. Technical data density 800 modulus of rupture mpa dry 118 radial shrinkage 3 5 hardness janka. Ask about this timber australian wormy chestnut data sheet. The resulting tracks of the chestnut timber worm are more commonly known as shot worm holes.

It is not just beautiful and full of character it. 85mm 130mm 180mm thickness. Just arrived from a barn salvage project this wormy chestnut will make some beautiful furniture or flooring. Australian wormy chestnut flooring will not collect dust or conceal dirt making it a natural choice for asthma and hay fever sufferers.